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Subject: TWL: Re: Japanese trawler story
From: Shaun Sweeney (shaunsweeney@XXX.XXX)
Date: Sun Dec 02 2001 - 01:30:19 EST
HOLY COW!
Shaun Sweeney
aboard Rana III
GB 46' Alaskan #27
Lying Nanaimo Harbour
BC Canada
----- Original Message -----
From: <Thataway@XXX.XXX>
To: <trawler-world-list@XXX.XXX>
Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 5:07 PM
Subject: TWL: Japanese trawler story
> I don't know if this is really true, but it is a story I found when doing
a
> search on "trawlers":
>
> According to Reuters, the dazed crew of a Japanese trawler was plucked out
of
> the Sea of Japan earlier this year clinging to the wreckage of their
sunken
> ship.
>
> Their rescue was followed by immediate imprisonment once authorities
> questioned the sailors on their ship's loss. To a man they claimed that a
> cow, falling out of a clear blue sky, had struck the trawler amidships,
> shattering its hull and sinking the vessel within minutes.
>
> They remained in prison for several weeks, until the Russian Air Force
> reluctantly informed Japanese authorities that the crew of one of its
cargo
> planes had apparently stolen a cow wandering at the edge of a Siberian
> airfield, forced the cow into the plane's hold and hastily taken off for
> home. Unprepared for live cargo, the Russian crew was ill-equipped to
manage
> a frightened cow rampaging within the hold. To save the aircraft and
> themselves, they shoved the animal out of the cargo hold as they crossed
the
> Sea of Japan at an altitude of 30,000 feet.
>
> Bob Austin, Pensacola, FL
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